Juan Orlando Hernandez says he was ‘wrongly accused’ at sentencing hearing for conviction on drugs and weapons charges.
President Xiomara Castro says new measures are in response to public complaints about rising violence.
A report by the Norwegian Refugee Council says nine out of the 10 countries on the list are African.
Honduras has recalled its charge d’affaires while Venezuela plans to close its diplomatic offices in Ecuador in protest.
The US has not delivered justice by convicting a former Honduran president it propped up for so many years.
A US court convicts former right-wing President Juan Orlando Hernandez of narco-trafficking.
The former two-term president was convicted on weapons and drug-related charges after being extradited to the US.
A witness in the trial accused an unnamed member of the Israeli embassy in Colombia of participating in a cocaine ring.
Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez faces accusations he transformed Honduras into a drug-trafficking ‘narco-state’.
The heavy-handed security measures introduced to tackle gang violence have triggered a spike in abuses and deaths.
El Paso in Texas pleads for help amid a dramatic increase in asylum seekers crossing into the US from Mexico.
Amid capitalism’s war on the environment and its defenders, we need Indigenous communities more than ever.
Officials hope the isolated facility will cut gang members off from criminal networks on the mainland.
Crackdown comes in the wake of a gang-related attack at a women’s penal centre that left 46 people dead.
